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COVID-19 Can Create Opportunity for IoT in the Caribbean
ABSTRACT
Connected devices provide an avenue for directed information to create awareness and enable individuals to make intelligent decisions . These IoT and IIoT devices can create business opportunities by engaging directly in real-time with consumers to provide alert notifications about products , services and processes during the changing parameters of COVID-19 .
There is a lack of focused research and reports of Caribbean IoT usage within the health context of the COVID-19 pandemic . Preliminary discussions with regional technology specialists supported this deficiency and noted that the primary goal is the digital transformation process . The net effect of the pandemic was disruptive to the status quo and sensitized the need for faster and wider digitalization through accelerated process changes in both the business and government sector .
This research is a Caribbean focused survey that explored the potential of smart devices ( which encompass IoT ) during this pandemic . The first section explored IoT use in health through a literature review . The second section summarized the methodology used to generate the primary and secondary data . The Caribbean Perspectives section analyzed the responses from the survey to identify and evaluate investment opportunities of connected technologies ( and systems ). This was developed into a conceptual IoT Caribbean Solution in the fourth section with a focus on Benefits to the Caribbean in the fifth . The Opportunities for IoT Deployment section developed the IoT Iteration Cycle that can be adopted to increase IoT systems based on new KPIs .
IOT USE IN HEALTH
IoT enables users to “ monitor and interact ” with the changing physical environment through its virtualization with the use of Cyber-Physical Systems ( CPS ), that convert physical parameters into data . These devices provide a benefit by “ contributing to the solution of specific issues such as public health and well-being ” 1 through the autonomous collection and transmission of physical data ( light , sound , location , temperature ) can directly influence a population ’ s participatory
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Tsiatsis , V . et al . ( 2019 ) Internet of Things , Internet of Things : Technologies and Applications for a New Age of Intelligence . Elsevier . doi : 10.1016 / C2017-0-00369-5 .
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